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January 22nd 18, 02:56 PM
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RIP Tomas Reich - SGP Chile
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:38:29 -0800 (PST), krasw
wrote: Very sad news. Safety of WGC events has been appalling for decades and if you calculate accident rate / participants or flight hours in Grand Prix events, it must be at least tenfold, probably more. This is not acceptable, and still we accept it year after year. Yes it's beautiful, exhilarating and media-sexy to compete few meters from mountains but this is crazy. If they would have same accident rate in motorsports, events would be simply forbidden as too dangerous. Taking in count Klaus Kalmbach's accident (which was of the type that usually ends fatal), the Chile Grand Prix had two extremely bad accidents in a starter field od 20 pilots, that's one out of ten. Glad that someone mentions that this accident rate is unacceptable. Andreas 
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